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Entity SEO

Work that makes a search system confident about which thing a page is about — a specific organisation, product or person rather than a name. It matters most when a brand shares its name with a larger or older business, because a system will answer questions about the one it understands better.

Also written Entity optimisation or Entity optimization. Atlas writes British English; the definition is the same.

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Why it matters

The consequence, not the concept

Name collision is not hypothetical. It moves reported positions, splits branded demand and puts another company’s answers in front of your customers — and no amount of content on your own site resolves it, because the ambiguity lives outside the site.

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Where Atlas works on this

2 routes
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Build visibility

Seven questions

A definition is only worth publishing if it is true of your site too. Atlas reads the site before the first conversation.

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